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Monday, March 10, 2008

Powerful men and their pants.

...And we ain't talking about superman putting them over his tights!

The headlines reads "Who is telling the truth?", and we now know the answer, she is and he admits it.

So here was I thinking that Finland was developing it's own juicy little sex scandal - well, not really sex scandal at all, more like a shed-load-of-texts-from-the-foreign-minister-to-an-exotic-dancer scandal and then the Americans have to come along and do it bigger and better once again! A $5000 dollar an hour prostitute?! A young man could get quite over excited thinking about what could possibly cost that much!

Thank goodness this is all happening in the wired age when we can easily find out much more than we ever wanted to know about these kind of things: http://valleywag.com/364361/one+question-faq-whats-it-cost

Another perspective on the cost was mentioned in the same sentence as Charlie Sheen, "Guys like that aren't paying for the sex. They're paying for the girl to go away afterwards."

NBC also did an recent infoploitation piece: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=61054

Somehow it appears rather far removed from the impoverished and exploited Eastern European / Asians sold into slavery that the anti-prostitution campaigners seem to want to paint everything with.